The Life & Character of the Seal of Prophets (sa) - Volume II — Page 151
IV - Battle of Badr, Establishment of the Islāmic Empire and Destruction of the Chieftains of the Quraish 151 ُ یَا حَی ُّ یَا قَیُّوْم ُ یَا حَی ُّ یَا قَیُّوْم “O My Ever-Living God! O My Life-Giving Master!” 1 Ḥaḍrat Abū Bakr ra was greatly disturbed by this state of the Holy Prophet sa , and at times would spontaneously say, “O Messenger of Allāh! May my mother and father be an offering. Do not worry, Allāh shall definitely fulfill His promises. ” 2 However, the Holy Prophet sa remained constantly engaged in his supplications, weeping and wailing, according to the following proverb: 3 - On the other hand, when both the armies collided, Abū Jahl, chieftain of the Quraish, supplicated in the following words, “O God! Do utterly destroy in this field, that party which has severed ties of kinship, and created an innovation in the faith. ” 4 In another narration, 5 it is related that on this occasion, or perhaps before it, Abū Jahl supplicated in the following words, “O our Lord! If the religion brought by Muḥammad is true, then send upon us a rain of stone, or utterly destroy us by some other painful punishment. ” 6 Now, the field of battle was heated by bloodshed. Before the Muslims was a party three times their number, which had entered the field of battle, embellished with all kinds of military equipment, determined to erase all traces of Islām. The poor Muslims were fewer in number, lesser in equipment and struck by shocks of poverty and exile, and as far as apparent means were concerned, they were a prey of a few minutes before the people of 1 * As-Sunanul-Kubrā, By Imām Abū ‘Abdir-Raḥmān Aḥmad bin Shu‘aib An-Nasa’ī, Kitābu ‘Amalil- Yaumi Wal-Lailati, Bābul-Istinṣāri ‘Indal-Liqā’i, Volume 6, pp. 156-157, Ḥadīth No. 10447, Dārul- Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (1991) * Aṭ-Ṭabaqātul-Kubrā, By Muḥammad bin Sa‘d, Volume 2, p. 262, Ghazwatu Badr, Dāru Iḥyā’it- Turāthil-‘Arabī, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (1996) 2 Ṣaḥīḥu Muslim, Kitābul-Jihād Was-Siyar, Bābul-Imdādi Bil-Malā’ikati Fī Ghazwati Badr. . . . . , Ḥadīth No. 4588 3 A persian proverb which means, ‘The wiser a saint, the greater his fear. ’ [Publishers] 4 As-Sīratun-Nabawiyyah, By Abū Muḥammad ‘Abdul-Mālik bin Hishām, p. 428, Dhikru Ru’yā ‘Ātikata binti ‘Abdil-Muṭṭalib / Istiftāḥu Abī Jahlin Bid-Du‘āi , Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (2001) 5 Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābut-Tafsīr, ‘Sūratul-Anfāl’ Bābu Qaulihī Wa Idh Qālū Allāhumma In Kāna Hādhā Huwal-Ḥaqq. . . . . , Ḥadīth No. 4648 6 This supplication of Abū Jahl is also evidence of the fact that in this campaign, the actual objective of the chieftains of the Quraish was to destroy Islām and the Muslims; and revenge for the killing of ‘Amr Ḥaḍramī, etc. was merely an excuse and a tool for inciting the disbelieving masses.